Baird of the land

Yeah i’d Stick with the 532, just swapping tella & Redmond for kwp and Adams.

Our best hope of keeping him is that they might be up for loaning him out for a 2nd season.

Really nice to get a comfortable win. great effort by tella filling in on the right. Wonder if we’ll play that formation more often. I feel in particular it suits perraud.

What about suspensions, if they are going to count nonsense like Alcon then surely they should count everything.

Is Valery suspended for the league?

First lunge is partially due to forster’s abominable kick. 2nd is stupid but unless there was foot contact I missed, it was the barest of shoulder taps. valery has looked ok in a back 3 this season and in the past at wing back. So don’t think he should be out of chances completely.

Curious who will play rb on Tuesday. I definitely don’t want to see Valery in a back 4 again.

Their second goal seemed thankfully to change the mindset of Saints.

JUst appalling from Saints. Have the ball in their half and instead of trying to go forward shovel it back to forster to give them the ball straight back. From that possession they end up scoring

Saints have been very poor in the second half. I know we have a man less but little composure shown when we have the ball.

Usually there's at least some logic when they get the shape/positions completely wrong.

That is absolutely fabulous by Cambridge. Maybe we should have a look at that Cambridge keeper some of his saves were quality.

Forster valery Stephens lyanco Simeu perraud diallo Romeu armstrong armstrong tella

Was not a fan of puel’s style. Being boring and average isn’t very desirable as his time at Leicester proved. Our issue was replacing him with someone terrible.

This is not the first time Covid has run rife at Newcastle. Surely league should at least be demanding that they implement tougher protocols or fining them or their lax ones.

Great response from the team to going down to 10 men. Such a change from past collapses. Good to see the deeper squad showing what they are capable of again.

Maybe more chance of securing a second year loan?

Looked at west ham team and saw no Antonio starting and was happy. Then found out saints are missing tella, lyanco and Stephens meaning the very Ropey bednarek and Walcott start and was far less happy

And the answer is of course no he will not.

From a wage perspective Lewis must be on a pittance compared to other first teamers. I'm sure we could have signed caballero instead of him as third choice but it would have cost us much more in wages for a player we didn't expect to ever have to grace the field.

I' was assuming neither of those will be fit given ralph protected Tella/Broja by subbing them Seems like it won't go ahead anyway, which is probably good.

He was playing for us before the Scotland games. Not the first time Scotland have mismanaged him and he’s come back crocked. So I don’t see a conspiracy.

Caballero made some key contributions this evening in getting us a point. At the end of the day we went dirt cheap on our third choice with the reasoning that he would be nothing more than a glorified warm up redundancy. Hence Caballero cameo and hopefully today was last time we'll need to see him.

Thought he was fair. I'd moan about the Tomkins handball (but it probably was accidental) and i liked that he let Salisu off with a yellow for clothlining their guy. Romeu got away without a booking too despite landing a few challenges.

I wouldn't complain too much about that but personally i like the looks of Lyanco/Salisu. Just no Bednarek please. Given ralph's praise of Lyanco it would be odd to drop him. "Lyanco was good, he had a very good game. It was nice to watch the young lads up front. They are brave."